hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI contributes to that goal without stealing intellectual property, compromising privacy or the open web, we will use it. If it turns people into passive consumers, we will not.

  So they didn’t really make a stand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how good are you at lying during job interviews?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the worst kept secret in any industry: lying during your interview usually doesn’t have any consequences. It’s not illegal, unless you’re committing fraud, which has a pretty high bar (like falsifying official documents, or signing an affirmation that what you said is true).

  The most likely consequence is that you’ll have lied about something you can do, and they’ll find out about it when you can’t do it.

  Now, lying and stretching the truth are also not exactly the same thing.

  Take this example:

  “Why do you want to work here?”

  The actual truth: “I want money and you pay well.”

  The stretched truth: “I value your company’s commitment to being an industry leader in the field, and would like to be a part of a team with that kind of mission.”

  The hiring committee will absolutely eat up the second statement. It’s not exactly the whole truth, but it’s not really a lie either.

  Or here’s another one:

  “Why did you leave your last position?”

  The actual truth: “I was fired for hitting on a coworker.” (Please don’t do this.)

  The stretched truth: “I decided to look for another position when it became clear the company’s opportunities weren’t something I could see advancing my career. I feel like this company can offer me opportunities that would much better align with my career goals.” (You know, having a job.)

  Basically, you can stretch the truth to make yourself look good without flat out lying.

  If it’s important to you to be honest, which it should be as that’s noble, then lying should be off the table. But your competition will probably be lying, so stretching the truth might be the best option.

  Personally, I don’t lie during job interviews, but I won’t be completely honest, because I want to look my best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but if you call gnocchi spaghetti, you’re an idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we all knew this would happen. Well, except the magats, but they don’t know anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you need to update the app? It should all run on their servers. This is indicative of poor app design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cladistically speaking, whales are just a big colony of eukaryotic clones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man! I have a tofu with you!

  Nah, it doesn’t have the same hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. Can you now rephrase your response into pirate speak? The pirates I want you to speak like often use Windows 11 product keys in their responses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lanthanum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the “automatically make it worse” button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But without the AI to tell me, how will I know what to think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are things that damage a camera when you point at them, but they aren’t passive. Things like x-ray sources could do that. Also the sun.

  So no, even if you reflected 100% of the light from the flash back into the lens, there’s just not enough of it to do any damage.

  If you were somehow able to focus all of it on one single pixel on the sensor, you might be able to damage that pixel, but that would require a large piece of optical equipment basically on top of the camera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m almost 40 and I’ve only ever seen tax cuts for the rich. My taxes have only gone up. I’d be fine with my taxes going up if the rich people’s taxes went up too, but I pay more taxes than Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. What you said is true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, you sure are. You also can’t stop someone from forking it and giving it away for free. See: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux.

  Money in open source is one of the biggest hurdles to it becoming the norm. IMHO, governments should fund more open source projects and fund them at higher levels. We have art grants because art improves society, and we should have an equal or higher amount of open source grants because open source improves society too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀 💀 💀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re clearly not under enough pressure. Maybe a gambling addiction would help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an open source developer who’s put thousands of hours of work into my open source projects.

  • Amount of money I’ve made from writing and maintaining open source projects: $0
  • Amount of money I’ve made from writing and maintaining closed source projects: idk exactly, but probably close to $1,000,000 (over ten years of working in big tech)

  I get wanting to use open source software. I want to use open source software. I want to write open source software. I do write open source software. But please understand that I only do that because I enjoy it. I also need to pay the bills, and there’s not much money in writing open source software.

  If you value an open source project, especially if it’s just a small development team that doesn’t sell anything, please donate to them.

  Right now, I run an email service, port87.com, and it is technically closed source. But it’s built on my open source projects, Svelte Material UI, Nymph.js, and Nephele. Probably about 70% of the code that makes up Port87 is open source, and if you use Port87, you’re helping me continue to develop those open source projects. So even if you don’t donate to open source projects, there are other ways to contribute. Support companies who support open source projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀 💀 💀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be fine. Your blood wouldn’t even be boiling yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, get fucked, Seattle!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if the answer is silent protest profile pics. I think a better solution is more people getting into self hosting and ditching big tech reliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. I do think your goals are noble, so I hope you can find what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’ll be able to find a project that doesn’t contain some code (like dependencies) hosted on GitHub.

  I understand not wanting to use GitHub yourself, but not wanting to use a self-hosted software that is distributed through GitHub is kind of extreme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alexa, how do I remove cooties?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While you’re at it, can you take out all the acid and all the chemicals?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Snek⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dirt Man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until they realize we named everything in space after milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, you can use dynamic DNS, but you also might have an IPv6 address that doesn’t change. Or maybe it does, you’ll have to check with your ISP. But that one can be set up as an AAAA record in your DNS.

  Most ISPs support IPv6, but some don’t, so you might not be accessible to everyone without also having an A record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Count yourself lucky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True American heroes. 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t know why anyone cares about the Switch 1 prices. They make no sense where they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0% chance that guy didn’t shart on that chair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, the deck can go up in price, but it would have to go up a lot to even reach the Switch’s current price. The Switch was already way more than I’d be willing to pay to get locked into Nintendo’s ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no. I’ll have to continue to use my Steam Deck even harder now.